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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Information Literacy: esssential skills for the information age

The first edition of this book is available full text (a scanned text, so the quality isn't brilliant). Not something new, but I don't think I've blogged it before. It's good for the history of IL (with bias towards developments in North America) and for summarising the state of the art up to the point it was written.Spitzer, K. , Eisenberg, M. and Lowe, C. (1998) Information Literacy: esssential skills for the information age. ERIC Clearinghouse. http://eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED427780.pdfPhoto by Sheila Webber: late blackberries, October 2011

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Information Literacy is ...

"the adoption of appropriate information behaviour to identify, through whatever channel or medium, information well fitted to information needs, leading to wise and ethical use of information in society." (Webber and Johnston)